The Myth of the Middle Class: Have Most Americans Always Been Poor?
The Myth of the Middle Class: Have Most Americans Always Been Poor? - One of the most firmly entrenched myths of the American Ideology is that the U.S. is a “middle class society,” a “land of opportunity” where anyone who works hard has the opportunity to achieve the standard of living which has made America “the envy of the world.” A common, and spot on, rejoinder has been to